Lạc Mất & Hy Vọng tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Mr Braintree mrbraintree — just really fun summer reading. quick fun and witty.

Sana Deshmukh sana_d — Dreams of the Compass Rose by Vera Nazarian is a wonderful collection of intertwined stories that explore humanity, godhood, what is right, and what is illusion. It drew me in with a strong storytelling voice, sometimes using an overt narrator and sometimes just the tale unfolding. In a way, the style reminds me of the older fantastical fiction like Tales of the Arabian Nights, at least in the beginning. This isn’t a modern fantasy where the magic has its own physics, and yet much of it follows conventions and laws within its own world, whether it’s demonstrating the dangers of acting on too little information so though your intent is good the results are bad, or the risks of letting arrogance make you believe yourself smarter than gods. It’s a world where horrible acts have consequences, and horrible suffering sometimes offers a faint reward. At the start, the characters are all strangers, but as the book progresses, some of those strangers become familiar, even welcome. The narrative style changes too from an account of distant times brought to life by a storyteller to a tale unfolding before your eyes through the lens of a first person actor within the events. The choices made are ripe with conflict and often not what the character deserves, and yet as the stories come full circle, it works out. Things make sense, and even offer elements of happiness. This is a skillful, complex world peopled with compelling, three-dimensional characters that offer their dreams and nightmares in the hope that you, the reader, will walk away changed. My only regret is that it took me so long after getting the book to read it.

Andrew Yim 86yimhj — I had such a hard time getting into this book. But I'm really glad that I stuck it out. Rarely is a person able to tell a story just for what it is and nothing else. This tale certaintly has the ability to carry a political or religious message. (Neither of which would I be inclined or equipped to negate.) But Ms. Kingsolver, does tell JUST the story and yet the reader can glean what she chooses from the rest. The rest being the surroundings of the Congo itself, or the intricate wiring of the Price Family machine, or the civilization that is established when there is anarchy, whether it by anarchy by nature or anarchy by design. Though I've read other books that bring the written imagery to life, Ms. Kingsolver manages to be descript enough to paint the picture but somehow without judgement as to its beauty or its worth and this allows the reader to draw her own conclusions and see the world in the exact way her characters do....just as it is and not much more or less. Even after the slow start I'm willing to give this 4 stars.

Rafael Sicat coachraf — A classic love story. It will probably always be one of my favorite books. It is hard to get into the old English at first, but once you get the hang of it its not so bad. The story is a great example of the old saying "don't judge a book by its cover"